BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents
BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience

Performances in Cantonese, Croatian, English, French, German, Italian and Japanese

January 25-28 February 1-4, 4-7pm
Video In
Tickets $26/20 for all six shows, or see individual boxes for $5 each

Call Theatre Replacement at 604.764.6135 to reserve performance times and tickets.
Limited seating, reserve early.
Theatre Replacement, Vancouver www.theatrereplacement.org

"wonderfully entertaining, endlessly inventive, seriously funny and compelling theatre" - Vancouver Courier

BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience is a collection of short one-person shows for one-person audiences that take place in a very intimate theatre: a box worn on the actor’s shoulders. Through an interview process with first generation Canadians, six artists have created tiny shows which are performed in both English and another language.

BIOBOXES is a new form of documentary performance. Part museum, part photo album, part performance, BIOBOXES seeks to artifact the human experience through language and object and the stories that fill our lives. BIOBOXES explores a heightened relationship between audience and performer, redefining the idea of the face-to-face encounter. Lives are seen and experienced in a completely new way, as if looking at them through a microscope.

Theatre Replacement builds, produces and tours unique, small-scale chamber works. The company is dedicated to continuing the evolution of collaborative theatre-making and ensemble training. Artistic directors James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto have been developing new work through creative collaborations between artists of different disciplines and approaches for over 10 years, redefining the performance experience. The company’s past successes include Farther and Farther On, The Empty Orchestra, Broiler, Sexual Practices of the Japanese and Box Theatre.

For full event line-up and ticket sales: www.pushfestival.ca

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is Vancouver's mid-winter performing arts festival, presenting acclaimed local, national and international artists and their work. In a spirit of innovation, the PuSh Festival engages and enriches audiences with adventurous contemporary performance, while promoting cultural exchange and development.